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Paul
Asked: 2014-04-10 02:43:50 +0800 CST

Which Nginx and which config file is used

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I am trying to install Phusion Passenger module for Nginx. There was Nginx installed in /usr/sbin/nginx. The installer gem downloaded Nginx sources and compiled them with Passenger support into /opt/nginx/sbin/nginx. I copied this file into /usr/sbin/nginx.

So currently I am in doubt which Nginx is running and which config file I should edit.

Is there some way to determine the location of actually used Nginx and which configuration file does it use?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You shall be able to see the master process with:

    florin@vm:~$ ps aux | grep nginx
root       884  0.0  0.0  76944  1308 ?        Ss   10:28   0:00 nginx: master process /usr/sbin/nginx

    Then execute:

    $ /usr/sbin/nginx -V 2>&1 | grep --colour=auto conf

    It shall give you a --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf somewhere around there.

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  2. ~# nginx -t
nginx: the configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf syntax is ok
nginx: configuration file /etc/nginx/nginx.conf test is successful
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